Nintendo Reports a Fast Start for Zelda
The company compares the same opening period.
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In this lesson: Connect a regional figure to the worldwide total and identify the comparison.
Grammar in this story: Included, not added again
The figure includes
Includes makes the Japan sales part of the worldwide total, not an extra amount to add.
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Explain why adding 810,000 to 5.2 million would misread the report.
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The worldwide figure already includes the 810,000 copies sold in Japan. Adding those copies again would count the same sales twice.
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